Dec 13, 2020
Korean Sangju Campbell grapes
These are super popular at Galleria where they're sold in huge cases. It was initially sweet, then the grapes get a little more bitter/sour from the skin of the grape. The inside was okay with a jelly-like texture until you get to the seeds, which was not great for the mouth-feel when you come across something hard as you're eating a jelly grape.
August 3, 2020
Korean Cheese Dog $3 (on sale this week)
My first time trying a Korean cheese dog - there's a super popular place near Yonge and Finch, but there's always a line up, so I figured I would try it on sale at Galleria first.
Pretty good crispy outside crust and soft melted cheese inside - contrary to what I was expecting, there wasn't a hot dog inside. It was just a corn dog outside with cheese in the middle. Quite yummy, but I felt like it needed some kind of sauce.
March 24, 2020
January 18, 2018
December 31, 2017
December 3, 2017
Mom's Chicken
6 Drumsticks with sauce on the side $9.99
Fried chicken with sweet and spicy sauce
Yum! Lots of meat on the chicken drumsticks and delicious sweet and spicy sauce. Luckily, Mom's Chicken is sold at Galleria, so it was easy to pick up a pack while shopping for groceries.
January 18, 2018
Take out Jajangmyun
The portion looks a little sad, but it was a $1 cheaper with takeout.
December 31, 2017
Mandu
They looked really pretty, but they weren't very good.
Pork Bone Soup
It looks super spicy from the gojuchang, however, it wasn't that spicy.
Jajangmyun
December 3, 2017
Chap chae is sweet and savoury fried glass noodles with vegetables and tteokbokki is a spicy stir-fried rice cake with fish cake and some vegetables.
Both were really good, but the more I ate the tteokbokki - the spicier it got. Make sure you can handle the spiciness before attempting! :)
November 19, 2017
After my experience at the Thornhill Galleria, I came back to the York Mills location to compare them.
The beef bone has a rather light flavour, but I loved the beef and clear glass noodles and it was pretty tasty. This was way better than the food I had yesterday.
November 9, 2017
November 6, 2017
September 10, 2016
July 10, 2016
Such nice packaging for potentially messy fried chicken.
December 19, 2015
Pork Bone Soup
I've tried so many pork bone soups around Toronto and the Greater Toronto area and I still like this one best. They have the perfect mix of spiciness from the broth, large chunks of pork bone with lots of meat on it, flavourful potatoes and a huge portion. It's pretty filling with the rice as well. So Yummy!
November 6, 2017
Galleria has a promotion on their Korean Fried Chicken! Unfortunately, it wasn't the saucy fried chicken, but we paid extra for some sauce on the side (which makes it infinitely better).
The fried chicken was nice, but it'd be even nicer if the sauce was already mixed with the crispy chicken skin and meat. Still delicious though! (Although quite a bit pricier than KFC or Popeye's).
Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup
I was pretty excited to see this on the menu at Galleria (I think this is a recent offering).
However, once I tried the soup, I thought it was okay - but nothing as amazing as other ginseng chicken soups I've had before. The chicken was a small chicken (in a gigantic bowl) and there was some sticky rice and a little bit of ginseng inside.
Galleria markets their Korean Fried Chicken as "Mom's Chicken" (or maybe it's a franchise?). Either way, there was a sale on it this week, so we decided to try it out.
We got half fried chicken and half spicy fried chicken to mix it up (and it came with radishes on the side).
The regular fried chicken was pretty good with crispy skin and juicy chicken meat (I prefer the spices in the Popeye's chicken though) and the spicy fried chicken was really good! It definitely tastes better with the spicy sauce, but the skin wasn't as crispy with all the sauce and the meat was a little drier. The radishes were okay. I thought the Korean fried chicken was interesting at Galleria, but I think I'd stick with the Pork Bone Soup.
Usually on Saturdays, Galleria will have some kind of special meal for a discounted price. We happened to come on a day when the Pork Bone Soup was $5.95, so here it is:
This pork bone soup is the best value for money pork bone soup I've ever had. A restaurant will easily charge you about $10 plus tax and tip and this is $5.95 (excluding tax). Also, the soup is delicious and the pork bone meat is delicious (the tenderness of the meat depends when you're eating it - if you eat it when they just make it, then the meat doesn't fall off the bone the same way vs. later in the day when it's had time to absorb more of the spicy soup flavour and the meat becomes tenderized). Also, the purple rice is really good with the soup.
February 11, 2013
Galleria is a popular Korean supermarket and it opened up a location at York Mills and Don Mills last year:
I was fascinated by the whole process for ordering food and eating there:
1) You decide what you want and order the food at the cashier desk right next to the open kitchen (on the south side near the exit of the store).
2) You get these automatic pagers that vibrate and flash when your food is ready
3) Then you go to the Pick-up station to grab your food. I think pick-up station 1 is for soups and pick-up station 2 is for other dishes. The dumplings pick-up station is separate from both, but if you're lost there's signs at the top.
The store has some Lunar New Year Promotions this week:
The Pork Bone Soup (to go) $4.98 (regular is $6.99)
The soup is really good! The first couple of sips of soup allow you to taste how flavourful it is without overwhelming you with the spiciness of the soup. However, as I kept eating, the soup got progressively spicier and I was really thankful for the rice. The pork bones had quite a bit of meat on them and it soaked in the spicy broth making it tender. I actually really liked their pork bone soup: quite surprising for supermarket fare and it's so cheap!
Beef Dumplings $4.99
The dumplings were pretty doughy and filled with glass noodles, korean napa cabbage and ground pork:
I think it's an imitation of xiaolongbao, but it didn't have enough soup in the bao, the skin was too thick and the filling wasn't very tasty.
Jajangmyun $3.99 (regular $4.99)
I prefer the Chinese version of the dish (Zhajiangmian) and I find the Korean version is usually a pale imitation. However, I thought this was a decent jajangmyun with a sweeter sauce than the fermented soybean sauce traditionally used in Zhajiangmian. The sauce had onions, potatoes, eggplant and ground beef to make it sweeter.
Overall: The ordering process is a novelty and the food is cheap and tasty! It's worth a try (especially this week with the Lunar New Year promotions).
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